For Democrats and progressives, it is critically important that President Obama's nominee to succeed the late Justice Scalia becomes the next Supreme Court Justice. Unless...wait for it...unless President Clinton's or President Sanders' … [Read more...]
Fox News On June 26th, 2015, Oh How Odd It All Seems
One can only scratch one's head when it comes to the incredulous nature of the Fox News Network. On a day as momentous, after a week as momentous as this, the O'Rielly Factor's nightly feature is on global terror, completely ignoring … [Read more...]
The SCOTUS Decisions Hammer Conservative Movement
The Court this week has delivered a series of devastating blows to America’s conservative movement with their second decision affirming the constitutionality of Obamacare, today’s decision on same sex marriage along with another decision on … [Read more...]
Hoosiers, Razorbacks, Loons and Anti-Gay Laws
The hounds are not going to stop yelping, snarling and nipping. What we've seen in milder versions elsewhere and recently in extreme ones Indiana and Arkansas will continue. They are in the end expressions of the same anti-gay craziness … [Read more...]
WSJ: “An Obamacare Plan Beats No Plan”
As spring arrives, when we turn to the Opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, we find that Hell hath frozen over... An Obamacare Plan Beats No Plan The sudden withdrawal of the subsidies could put private insurance markets in as many … [Read more...]
GLAD’s Head Talks Marriage News
It's hard to avoid the word play that GLAD is glad. Today's Left Ahead show with Gary Buseck was pretty jolly. He is the legal director and interim executive director of Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders. Looking at the huge, … [Read more...]
All’s Not Lost After McCutcheon
The Roberts version of the SCOTUS slammed good-government types hard, first with Citizens United and now with McCutcheon v. FEC. Today theSunlight Foundation’s Lisa Rosenberg (government-affairs consultant) gave me some perspective…and … [Read more...]
Can a Repeal of Obamacare Actually Help Obama in November?
This week the SCOTUS will decide on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordability Care Act of 2009 (AKA - Obamacare). This may be President Obama's primary legislative achievement. Conventional wisdom says that if the … [Read more...]
Justice Thomas ignores law
Thomas appears to think that the law does not apply to him, for some reason. The Supreme Court is "the only judicial body in the country that is not governed by a set of judicial ethical rules," Gillers said. A spokesman for the … [Read more...]
Guns Are People, Too
The U.S. Supreme Court, expected to rule narrowly on whether the 2nd Amendment precludes states and municipalities from enacting gun control laws, instead -- by the usual 5-4 majority -- swept away more than a century of precedent and … [Read more...]